Gene Green

The health care law provides billions of dollars in public health grants for community health center expansion.

Individuals in underserved communities, minorities, rural areas and communities with high poverty rates need the Affordable Care Act.

The president's proposed $85 billion tax hike would suppress our domestic production, stifle job creation, and drive up imports.

You would not be just harming 'Big Oil' by repealing these incentives. You would single-handedly be destroying thousands of small businesses across our country.

The average independent production company has only 12 employees, the definition of a true small business.

I want to reiterate my opposition to the President's proposed tax increases on the oil and gas industry.

In return, this industry delivers $86 million a day to the federal government in revenue.

The number one issue that faces the Port of Houston... is the future of maintenance dredging by the Army Corps of Engineers.

CCS still is not commercially viable but hopefully we can get to that point sometime before you get mandates there that at least the technology needs to be there.

I want to reiterate my opposition to the president's proposal tax increases on the oil and gas industry.

I don't understand why DHS, as we proposed in two separate legislations earlier, harmonized TWIC with the leverage and the operational--the background checks.

I must say, when I read the internal memo, I was surprised and dismayed by the level of dysfunction and the lack of progress within the CFATS program.

As a long-term supporter of nuclear energy, because this is a cleaner energy alternative, I had the opportunity to visit countries like France and Sweden to learn about their nuclear energy programs.

I met with all those County commissioners, a number of them and they are very supportive.

We have a President who campaigned in Nevada saying he was going to shut down Yucca, we have the majority leader in the Senate saying that.

I have supported the use of Yucca Mountain in the past and still believe it is a terrible waste of taxpayer dollars to have this $12 billion facility sitting unused in the desert.

I am a strong supporter of the Keystone pipeline and have been from the beginning.

We need this product, and I think by stopping Keystone pipeline from being built, we are preventing the future production of the Canadian oil sands.

I support both the solar, the wind, the nuclear, you name it.

I think it is correct the CLASS Act was added by voice vote when we were working on the Affordable Care Act.

We have now got back responses from three separate national surveys. And they all show that the number of young adults in this country who are uninsured has dropped by a million because of that policy.

It is no secret that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't like the historic health care reform law that we passed in 2010.

I probably would have voted for the 2003 plan if it hadn't been for that doughnut hole in there. So I am glad we are closing it.

I know we have heard the quote of a Ponzi scheme. I thought up until today I heard a Ponzi scheme was only what the Republicans thought about Social Security.

But I don't want to use the CLASS Act as a reason to oppose the Affordable Care Act.